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definitely seem fairly pricey for what you are getting.

$1500 for 10 pieces. No way. Looks like I have a new shop project.

Here are some measurements from the manufacturer's site.
http://www.bravespacedesign.com/gallery/pop_dims_t ...

Based on some rough calculations assuming 1"x12" stock, it takes about 74 board feet to make 10 of these pieces. You can get that out of 3 sheets of plywood. ***** $1500, make them yourself for a few hundred. If my math is wrong, let me know, I did it very quickly.

This is pretty cool looking, I know someone who would use this. But its way too expensive for my blood.
Mirror http://uploadingit.com/view/511014_g53cy if needed.

love the idea, not so much the price.

Older than Islam.

I wonder if Alexey Pajitnov is getting his share of that $1500.

DIY, document it, and post it to Make so everybody can do this without paying the ridiculous mark up from some "design haus".

Pffft.

Older than the submitter's mom.

Haven't these been around for a while?

DO WANT

I could build those in a day with less than 500 dollars, Way too expensive. boo.

hmm... tetris is fun, but not when it costs that much

What they don't tell you is that the entire bookshelf vanishes once you put it together.

I have never been much of a fan of tetris, frankly it bores me
and furniture design bores me as well. I dont see the point in spending that much for a shelf shaped like tetris, some of the shelves look inefficient, unless you want to show off to your neighbors how stylish you are, and when they come over say "hey, look at how attached I am to an 80s arcade game, I made my shelf tetris!" I am fine with the basic form of storage, a box or a slab of wood sticking out of the wall =P

Cool, but doesn't seem all that practical.

Rip-off. 1/3 of them look like filler pieces so you can't even use those to store things!

Meh. Maybe if they were made of brushed steel, without the wack colors, then they MIGHT be worth the price. Otherwise, I'll pass. They are interesting to look at aesthetically, but I'd give up trying to arrange books or other stuff in any kind of meaningful manner.

Build your own off of this old instructables how-to. All that's left is putting a coloured back on it and you're golden :)

http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-a-Tetris-DVD ...

You'd think that someone would have cleared those lines, how do they just stack up like that without any open spaces?

Oh come on, a blog with someone else's photos, buried down.

Stop with this stupid blog crap digg.

Looks good, but would be a pain in the ass to dust.

how unpractical is that thing? and the wooden parts make them look unfinished.

If someone put the effort, they could indeed make their own shelf of Tetris.

If you fill one of the shelves with junk does the line dissappear?

You would only net about 75% of the usable storage per total linear feet versus conventional shelving, and that's only in a specific orientation. You're actually losing storage, unless you buy the straight piece.

As a guess...half of a 4' x 8' sheet of veneer plywood makes ONE unit - each one seems to have about 11 or 12 square feet at the perimeter. Half of a 32 sq.ft. board = 16 sq. ft. At maybe $80 a sheet (birch veneer), the markup on a single storage unit over the cost of materials could be as much as 400%.

Green is paradigmatic - there should be no upcharge.

I actually built myself a Tetris Bookshelf over the summer! Its really cool, whenever i get bored with it i just re-arrange the pieces :)

Its not even real tetris. If you look at the centre of the right hand section you'll see a piece that is only 3 squares big. Tetra = 4. Pay $1000 for something which not only doesn't cost any where near that to make, quality control is abismal as the person who designed it has no concept of what tetris really is.